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Within a half hour, his face now ruddier than usual, Erviri returned to his Senate Caucus Room microphone to announce that he had been the victim of a hoax. Ervin had just talked to a man "who really assured me he was the real Secretary Shultz, and he informed me that he had had no conversation with me today." Protested the embarrassed Ervin: "It is just an awful thing for a very trusting soul like me to find that there are human beings?if you can call them such?who would perpetrate a hoax like this...
...believed the first caller, Ervin said, since turning over the tapes was "what I've been praying the White House would do?because it is so rational." Far from amused, both the Ervin staff and the FBI, at White House direction, promptly announced investigations to find who had posed as Shultz...
Moreover, if Dean's version of various talks with the President is accurate, it would take extensive doctoring of the tapes to get the recordings to reflect the conflicting White House version. Among the tapes that would seem to be especially significant for the Ervin committee are those of the following specific Nixon-Dean talks...
...moment was quintessential Sam Ervin. At the end of a morning's testimony by Nixon Campaign Aide Fred LaRue, Ervin leaned forward in his chair, his 76-year-old face a complexity of darting eyebrows, eyes intent but somehow distracted, and launched into a summary of what the Watergate hearings had taught him thus far. Haltingly, composing the phrases carefully in his mind, Ervin began in his broad Carolinian drawl: "Men upon whom for tune had smiled with beneficence and Who possessed great financial power, great political power and great governmental power, undertook to nullify the laws...
With the customary swiftness of the McLuhan age, Sam Ervin has now entered American folklore. A Sam Ervin fan club has sprung up in California and now has a national membership of 6,000. "Uncle Sam" T shirts, buttons and posters are on the market. The mailman hauls thousands of letters a day into Ervin's suite in the old Senate Office Building. One woman from Dallas even proposed marriage-and told the Senator that if he was not available, he could pass the note on to Tennessee's Howard Baker, the committee's other star...